Thanks Jan and Grant I have a bit better Idea of microcode now. Although
it seems like microcode may give me slightly better system performance
(if I transfer the microcode to the processor that is) I seriously doubt
anything is going to speed up this old box :)
She's been good, but with this
Hi people,
I'm in the midst of compiling the 2.4.19 kernel on my system and i came
across something I hadn't noticed before (so i don't know if its a new
feature or not), its microcode support.
I checked the help for this feature but it doesn't explain what
microcode is. I went to the web site it
quote who=Chris Barnes
I checked the help for this feature but it doesn't explain what
microcode is. I went to the web site it refered to
(http://www.urbanmyth.org/microcode/) but that doesn't explain what
microcode is either, it only explains how it works with the kernel.
Microcode is one
Chris Barnes [of Sydney Linux Users Group] wrote:
Hi people,
I'm in the midst of compiling the 2.4.19 kernel on my system and i came
across something I hadn't noticed before (so i don't know if its a new
feature or not), its microcode support.
I checked the help for this feature but it
